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Plague Bearer

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Plague BearerBuff, Persistent, AoE, Physical, Chaos, Nova
Tier: 4
Level: 1
Reservation: 30 spirit
While active, stores all Poison Damage you deal. Using the Plague Nova skill unleashes the stored Poison.Stores 4% of Expected Poison damage
Stores up to (43–15257) Poison Damage
Place into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill.
Sockets are found in the Skills menu tab.
Acquisition
Drop restricted
It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Spirit Gem.
Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemPlagueBearer

Plague Bearer is a persistent buff skill. The skill stores a portion of pre-mitigated poison damage you deal. This gem also grants the active skill Plague Nova, which deals physical damage equal to the amount of damage stored to enemies in an area around you.

Skill functions and interactions

Gem level progression

LevelRequired Level
10

Recommended support gems

The following support gems are recommendations by GGG as listed in-game, and do not necessarily reflect optimal combinations or the views of the wiki.

Gem
tier
Support gems
I Magnified Effect Vitality
II Coming Soon Splinter
III Astral Projection Cannibalism

Item acquisition

Plague Bearer has restrictions on where or how it can drop.

It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Spirit Gem.

Alternate skill effects

Plague Bearer has the following alternate skill effects:

ItemDescription

Version history

Version Changes
0.2.0
  • Many Skills have had their base damage and/or damage growth per level rebalanced. Most of these changes are not specifically mentioned below as the changes are too widespread.
0.1.0
  • Introduced to the game.